Reversing food supply: back to local farming in Canada
Calvin Daniels argues for a shift from globalized agriculture toward local production. He notes large farms depend on exports while consumers rely on imports, discusses the 100 mile diet, and links rising oil costs and tar sands to higher shipping costs that could incentivize growing more food locally to feed people within reach.
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California
Mexico
Victor Gruen and the invention of the modern mall
In 1938 Austrian immigrant Victor Gruen arrived in New York with eight dollars and an architecture degree. He aimed to bring European sociability to America and created the modern indoor shopping mall, transforming towns with vast parking and enclosed commercial space.
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Victor Gruen
New York Harbour
America
U.S
Gruen
North America
Malls Decline and Xanadu Dream of Grand Shopping
The piece notes malls shrinking as downtown districts fade while encloses shopping centers pursue novel uses such as walking, events, and entertainment. It cites Deadmalls com, cites Henry Fairlie on nonessential goods, and details Xanadu mall in East Rutherford planned as a vast indoor complex with ski slope and Ferris wheel, repeatedly delayed since 2004 with opening pushed to 2010 or later.
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U.S
Deadmalls
Larry Siegel
East Rutherford
New Jersey
North America
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